Bracket for roller-curtains and curtain-rods.



Patented Aug. 22, I899.

H. P. ROBERTS. BRACKET FOR ROLLER CURTAINS AND CURTAIN RODS.

(Application filed Nov. 19, 1898.

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

HENRY P. ROBERTS, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO GEORGE O.RUSSELL, OF LEXINGTON, AND NELSON WV. SANBORN, OF MALDEN,

MASSACHUSETTS.

BRACKET FOR ROLLER-CURTAINS AND OURT'AlN-RODQ.

SPEGIFICATION forming part Of Lettls Patilt NO. 6315674, dated August22, 1899.

Application filed November 19, 1898. Serial No. 696 869. (No model.)

To all whorls it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY P. ROBERTS, of Boston, county of Suffolk,State of Massachusetts, have made certain new and useful Improvements inBrackets for Roller-Curtains and Curtain-Rods, of which the following isa description suificiently full, clear, and exact to enable any personskilled in the art or science to which said invention appcrtains to makeand use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,forming a part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a frontelevation of a window, showing a roller-curtain and a curtain-rodsupported in position by my improved brackct; Fig. 2, a perspectiveview, enlarged, of the bracket detached; Fig. 3, a vertical section online 3 3 in Fig. 2, illustrating details; Fig. 4, a view showing amodification in the bracket; and Fig. 5 a View like that in Fig.

1, showing a use of the bracket in ventilation.

Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the differentfigures of the drawings.

My invention relates especially to a device for frictionally supportingroller-curtains and curtain-poles in the casings of windows, whereby itbecomes unnecessary to soar the woodworkby the screws and bradsordinarily used in fixtures of this class.

The nature and operation of the device will be readily understood bythose conversant with such matters from the following explanation.

In the drawings, A represents a windowcasing, and B a spring-actuatedshade or ourtain roller of ordinary construction.

D represents a curtain pole, and O the bracket considered as a whole.

The bracket 0 comprises an approximately semi-elliptical metal spring f,to the inner faces of the ends of which cups g are respectively securedby screws or rivets d. These cups hold plugs h of friction-cloth orcorru- 5 gated rubber or any suitable material that will impartsufficient frictional hold on the walls of the casing A when the springsf are expanded. Centrally on the apex of the spring there is fast asocket k, fitted to receive the end of a pole D. Through this socket ascrew m (see Fig. 3) is turned. This screw is designed to be turned inor out, the end of the pole D to act as a take-up or adjust said polerelative to said socket. For use with the shade-roller B the spring f isprovided with a squared opening 19 (see Fig. 4) to receive the end ofthe ordinary spring-winding spindle that projects from said roll. In usethe pole D or roller B is adjusted with the brackets at its ends. Thelength of the spring-curves added to the length of the poles is somewhatgreater than the interior breadth of the cas ing A. The friction-faces hof one spring are engaged with the facing of the casing in desiredposition. Then said spring is expanded by pressing the polelongitudinally, and the I bracket at the opposite end of the pole issprung into position, as shown. The tension of the springs driving theirfriction faces against the woodwork holds the device firmly in positionin a manner that will be understood without a more explicit description.

The pole D is designed to support draperies T, and the rollerB is forthe ordinary shaderoll. Both these forms may be adjusted readily in anyposition in the casing.

In Fig. 5 the roller B is shown as arranged at a material distance fromthe cap of the casing, so that the window 4; may be lowered at the top,as at w, for purposes of ventilation, and yet admit of the shade beingused for screening the balance of said window.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- 1. As a new articleof manufacture the bracket,O,comprising spring, f, provided with thecups, g, containing friction-plugs, h; and the socket, is, at the apexof said spring.

2. The bracket, 0, comprising the spring, f, provided withfriction-faces in combination with the socket, k, and the adjustingscrew, an, all being arranged substantially as specified.

3. As a new article of manufacture the bracket, 0, comprising thesemi-elliptical spring provided with friction-plugs, h, atits ends andan opening in its apex for receiving and retaining aloearing end of ashade-roller substantially as described.

HENRY P. ROBERTS.

Witnesses:

O. M. SHAW, C. M. WILBUR.

